Health Library & Resource Center

Our experienced medical librarians can provide you with what you need - often within minutes. Our medical library offers a wide range of services, available to you at no charge:

• Customized literature searches. You pick the topics, and librarians do the searching and send you the abstracts. Choose the articles you’d like to read, and they’ll send them to you.
• Journal article and book retrieval services. If you need a book or article that’s not in our library, our librarians can get it for you from one of the thousands of other medical libraries across the country (interlibrary loans).
• Up-to-Date, which provides clinical and patient education. Physician editors maintain and update the content by reviewing hundreds of journals.
• Access to MEDLINE, with more than 3,000 full-text online journals, along with other online databases.
• Journal table-of-contents alerts. Stay up to date on what’s being published in the journals of your choice or in a specific medical field.
• More than 3,000 full-text online journals, along with other online databases.
• Hundreds of professional-level textbooks in print and nearly a hundred available online.

In addition, the Health Library & Resource Center offers a variety of services open to the community - including eldercare and family caregiver assistance, help with filling out an advance healthcare directive, Medicare insurance counseling, and consultations with dietitians.

From your office or on the go, you can:

• View our online catalog. Look up books available in our library. Give us a call, and we'll hold your choices so you can stop by and pick them up, or we can send them through interoffice mail.
• Read articles online. You can browse medical abstracts, articles and textbooks online. Staff will provide you with remote access to online databases.
• Get help with research. If you need help finding information, call our librarians at 650-940-7210 (Mountain View) or 408-866-4044 (Los Gatos). You can also email your request.

How We Work

If it’s a quick request, our librarians can often do it right away. If it requires more time - though most requests are fulfilled the same day - librarians will let you know when they can complete your search. They can deliver your materials via email, interoffice, fax, or you can pick them up.

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